While slashing welfare and public services, Labour’s spring statement delivers a bonanza for death-dealing bomb merchants. We now see the true and terrible face of austerity 2.0, writes MICHAEL BURKE

In his first of a new monthly economics column MICHAEL BURKE argues that public-sector investment is more effective, more productive than private-sector investment

Driving down living standards is official policy, along with preaching to workers they must not demand better. In fact, only strikes and resistance will restore economic balance, writes MICHAEL BURKE

In a two-pronged attack, the Tories are cutting wages and gutting unions — but we too, have an agenda to reverse all this. Join us to fight back, writes MICHAEL BURKE